James Broselow (born January 12, 1943) is an American emergency physician, an assistant professor, an inventor and an entrepreneur. He and fellow emergency physician Robert Luten, M.D., are best known in the medical community for inventing the Broselow Tape[1] [2] in 1985, which was the first tool developed relating a pediatric patient's height to their weight in order to “determine the size of equipment, supplies, and dosages of medication to use…”[3] during emergencies. The Broselow Tape is featured in many medical textbooks and reference manuals[4] as the standard for length based weight measures.[5]
Currently, Broselow serves as the chief medical officer of eBroselow, LLC, a company he co-founded in 2009 that has developed the Artemis solution,[6] an electronic and digital drug dosing and tracking system and medical device for emergency medical services and emergency rooms. The company's mission is to save lives by simplifying acute care while reducing medical errors. He is also a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, where he explores, develops and communicates about new approaches to pediatric emergency medicine.
Broselow was born in Woodbury, New Jersey (NJ), United States, to Benjamin and Charlotte Broselow. He grew up in Franklinville, NJ. He obtained his undergraduate degree in economics from Dartmouth College in 1965 and his medical degree from the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry in 1969.
After graduating from medical school, Broselow became board certified as a family physician and entered private practice in Frankenmuth, Michigan, United States. Through his work in private practice he became interested in emergency medicine and in 1980, moved to North Carolina where he practiced emergency medicine in three community hospitals: Lincoln County Hospital, Cleveland Memorial, and Catawba Valley Medical Center. He retired from clinical practice in 2006.
Broselow Holds 12 patents related to safe emergency treatment of children. He started several businesses including Broselow Medical Technologies, LLC in the 1990s and presently is founding partner of eBroselow, LLC.
In 2012, Broselow received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Broselow lives in Hickory, North Carolina with his wife Millie.